Volha Hapeyeva
/Belarus, 1982
Volha Hapeyeva (Вольга Гапеева) is an award-winning Belarusian poet. Her works have been translated into more than 10 languages. She has had poems published in the USA, Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia, Georgia, Lithuania, and other countries. She writes poetry, prose and drama, as well as occasional books for children.
Volha Hapeyeva is the author of the books “Unshaven Morning” (2007), “Sad Soup” (2014), “(incr)edible stories” (2017), “The Grammar of Snow” (2017), “Camel-Travel” (2019) and others.
She has participated in numerous literary festivals and conferences all over the world, and international residency scholarships. 2019/2020 Volha has been awarded the “Writer of the City of Graz” scholarship (Austria). She collaborates with electronic musicians and visual artists to create audio-visual performances. A member of the Belarusian PEN Centre and the Belarusian Writers’ Union. She holds a PhD in linguistics; her research is in the fields of comparative linguistics, philosophy of language, sociology of the body, and gender issues in culture and literature.